Project Management Pre- Assessment

Which of the following are the types of organizational change that can have a significant impact on the project?

Relocation Outsourcing Acquisition Split

All of the following represent a category of contract used in procurement except for which one?

Requests for proposal

Which of the following are the stages of development that project teams progress through

Storming Adjourning Norming Forming

Which of the following are project management phases?

Planning Execution Closing

What are the advantages of the functional organization with respect to project management?

A clear chain of command. Growth potential and a career path for employees.

A well-written change control process should include which of the following components?

A description of the type of change requested Updated project planning documents The cost of the change The amount of time the change will take to implement

In which meeting do team members come prepared to answer the following three questions? What work they completed yesterday? What work they will complete today? What obstacles stand in their way?

A scrum meeting, which is part of the Agile methodology.

Which of the following represents money expended for completed work during a given period?

AC

Which of the following describes how to know the completed deliverables are satisfactory?

Acceptance criteria

What are the activities involved in the monitoring and controlling process?

Administering the change control process Performance measuring and reporting Performing quality assurance/governance activities

Which project management methodology uses self-organized and self-directed teams?

Agile

Which estimating technique uses the most likely, optimistic, and pessimistic estimates to come up with an average cost or duration estimate?

Analyze the impact of including the training in the project.

One of your project team members informs you about a new technology that will enhance the quality of the project and decrease the manufacturing cost and time. As a project manager, what will you do first?

Analyze the impact of the new technology.

Pareto chart

Benched resource

Which of the following techniques assigns an estimated cost to each work package on a project and provides estimate of the total project cost?

Bottom-Up

Ana, a project manager, has been asked to estimate the cost of the project. She wants that cost estimate for the project to be as accurate as possible. Which of the following techniques will she use to accomplish the task?

Bottom-up

Which cost-estimating technique relies on estimating work packages and then rolling up these estimates to come up with a total cost estimate?

Bottom-up

You're working for an organization and just learned that another organization with more power and influence is taking over your organization. What does this describe?

Business acquisition

Your project sponsor has expressed their need to have real-time project information at their fingertips. Which of the following is the way to meet this need?

By creating a project dashboard with scope, cost, and time elements

In which of the following project phases is the transition/integration plan included?

Closing

Which of the following are knowledge management tools?

Collaboration tools Intranet sites Vendor knowledge bases

You are a project manager at your company. Your project sponsor has asked you to terminate one of the team members. However, you know he has all the skills and knowledge to make the project successful. What should you do in this situation?

Conduct a meeting with project sponsor to discuss the issue regarding the team member.

As a project manager, you have noticed that a scope of a project is constantly changing by a stakeholder. What should you do to control the project scope?

Conduct a meeting with the stakeholder to review the scope.

A project manager has informed his team that they should complete their project by April 21. This is an example of which of the following?

Constraint

Your project sponsor told you that the due date for the project is a key to its success and there is no chance of the date changing. What is this known as?

Constraint

Which of the following is the approved, expected cost of a project?

Cost baseline

Which of the following is true regarding cost estimating?

Cost estimates are provided by team members. Cost estimates are inputs to the project budget and used to determine the total project cost. Cost estimate accuracy depends on the technique used to determine the estimate.

A project's cost variance (CV) is positive. What does this result indicate?

Costs are less than that budgeted.

You find that some of the stakeholders are not taking an interest in your project due to the project length. As a project manager, what should you do in this situation?

Create a concise communication plan which focuses on the project objectives and accomplishments.

In project management, the process of taking high-level project requirements and breaking them down into the tasks that will generate the deliverables is called what?

Decomposing

Risk analysis includes all of the following

Determining probability and impact and assigning a risk score Determining a risk response plan Identifying risk

example of a project selection method?

Expert judgment Scoring model Cost-benefit analysis

This positive risk strategy looks for opportunities to take advantage of positive project impacts if a risk event occurs.

Exploit

You have identified a positive project risk which is within your project team's control. Which of the following risk response strategies will you select to manage the positive project risk?

Exploit

A project manager, Kelvin, has asked two employees to not work on the same project together. He has also asked them to report this information to their supervisor as she has recommended for the two employees to work together. This is an example of which type of conflict resolution technique?

Forcing

What are the two types of charts that you might utilize to display the project schedule?

Gantt chart Milestone chart

Which of the following communication triggers occurs at the end of each project phase once the milestones are achieved?

Gate review

"Install an Interactive Voice Response System that will increase customer response time by an average of 15 seconds and decrease the number of customer service interactions by 30 percent" is an example of which of the following elements of the project charter?

Goal and objective

What is the purpose of WBS?

Identifies and organizes the scope of the project

A project manager has submitted a change request and gets it approved by the change control board. What will be his next step?

Implement the change.

You are a project manager at your company. You find that status meetings are poorly attended by the team members. What can you do to make the project status meetings more productive?

Include agenda items in the meeting invitation.

In which of the following project phases is high-level risk identified?

Initiating

All of the following describe types of project endings

Integration Starvation Addition Extinction

This is the final, approved version of the project schedule. All of the following are true regarding this term

It is approved by the stakeholders, sponsor, and functional managers. It describes a schedule baseline. It is used to monitor project progress throughout the remainder of the project.

Your subject-matter expert tells you that her most likely estimate to complete her task is 40 hours. The task starts on Thursday, January 20, at 8 a.m. The team works eight-hours a day, and they do not work weekends. Which day will the task end?

January 26

Which of the following is a measurable value that shows whether the project is reaching its intended goals?

KPI

The network communication model is a visual depiction of what?

Lines of Communication

The project transition plan includes which of the following?

Maintenance responsibilities of the project deliverables

What is the way to prevent scope creep?

Make sure the requirements are thoroughly defined and documented

You, a project manager, find that there are multiple risks that can have a significant impact on the project. What will you do first?

Manage the risk with the highest impact.

In which type of organization does the project manager share responsibility for team member assignments and performance evaluations with the functional manager?

Matrix

Which of the following can convey that you have achieved the completion of an interim key deliverable?

Milestone

Which of the following is used to assure that sensitive or trade secret information is not shared outside an organization?

NDA

As a project manager, you have been asked to create an issue log. What will you include in it?

Name of the person who reported the issue Status of the issue Date the issue was recorded

Which of following statements describes an assumption?

Our senior web developer will be available to work on this project.

The project team wants to estimate the final duration required to complete project activities. You have recommended them to use optimistic, pessimistic, and most likely durations to complete the project activities. Which of the following tools should the project team use to accomplish the task?

PERT

This is the cost of work authorized and budgeted for a scheduled activity or WBS component during a given time period or phase.

PV

You're a manager of a large IT project. At the time you performed your cost estimates, the vendor you've been working with provided you with the following estimates: Programming estimate: 320 hours at $135/hour. Project management estimate: 320 hours at $155/hour. Testing estimate: 150 hours at $85/hour.

Parametric

Which chart or diagram is a type of histogram that rank-orders data by frequency over time?

Pareto chart

During the midway of a project, you have been informed by your sponsor to cancel the project. As a project manager, what will you do?

Perform a contract closeout process.

Which of the following process groups determines the availability of required resources for the project

Planning

Which of the following management processes uses the make or buy analysis?

Procurement

Which of the following are the Project Management Knowledge Areas?

Project Integration Management Project Procurement Management Project Risk Management

Who is responsible for assembling the project's team members?

Project Manager

Which document authorizes the project to begin?

Project charter

What key meeting is held after the project charter is signed and/or at the beginning of the Executing process?

Project kickoff

Fishbone diagrams, Pareto diagrams, process diagrams, Gantt charts, and run charts are examples of which of the following?

Project management tools used to monitor and control project work

When taking over an incomplete project, what item should be of most interest to the new project manager?

Project scope statement

In this organizational structure, you report to the director of project management, and your team members report to their areas of responsibility (accounting, human resources, and IT). You will have complete control of the project team members' time and assignments once the project is underway. Which type of organization does this describe?

Projectized

Question 2 : Which of the following describe the responsibilities of a project sponsor?

Provides or obtains financial resources Monitors the delivery of major milestones Runs interference and removes roadblocks

Which of the following is added to the project schedule to determine whether the work is correct?

Quailty Gate

Alice has started a small two months project. After one month, he has been asked to add some functionality that is estimated to take an additional two weeks. He has implemented the functionality without having approval. This is known as which of the following?

Scope creep

Who is responsible for assisting the product owner in defining backlog items, and educating the team on the Agile processes

Scrum master

A project manager, Kate, has project team members that are geographically split between two time zones. What should be performed by her to deal with them?

Set up a meeting time suitable for both time zones.

Which of the following strategies associated with positive risks assigns the risk to a third party who is best able to bring about the opportunity?

Share

Which of the following is considered a lose-lose conflict-resolution technique and emphasizes the areas of agreement over the areas of disagreement?

Smoothing

One of the team members of your company is not happy with the work assigned to him. He's sharing negative feelings about the project with other team members. As a project manager, what should you do first in this situation?

Spend some private time with the team member to determine the cause of the dissatisfaction.

You, a project manager, find that one of the team members, who is new to a project, is not performing well. What should you do?

Talk to him for better performance. Provide training to him.

All of the following are factors that influence communication methods except which one?

Task completion

Which of the following is a deliverables-oriented hierarchy used to decompose a project?

WBS

Some team members on your team are driving each other crazy. They have different ways of organizing the tasks and the disparity in styles are causing them to bicker. Which of the following describes this situatio

This is a common cause of conflict.

Which estimating technique uses the most likely, optimistic, and pessimistic estimates to come up with an average cost or duration estimate?

Three-point

You and your team members have identified risk and are not able to resolve it due to a lack of expertise. You decided to move the liability for the risk to a third party by purchasing insurance. Which of the following risk response strategies have you selected?

Transfer

Demonstrating competency, respect, honesty, integrity, openness, and doing what you say you'll do is an example of which of the following?

Trust building

You are the project manager on a project where the scope has expanded. The change has been approved by the change control board (CCB). What steps must you take to acknowledge the new scope?

Update the project management plan. Communicate the change to stakeholders and team members.

Which of the following are the selection criteria you should consider when evaluating bids and proposals?

Warranty period Intellectual property rights and proprietary rights Technical ability of the vendor to perform the work of the project

Which of the following techniques assigns an estimated cost to each work package on a project and provides estimate of the total project cost?

Weighted scoring model

Which of the following will you use to effectively track all the changes done by the project stakeholder in the project plan document?

Version control

Which of the following is a deliverables-oriented hierarchy that defines the work of a project?

WBS

In your organization, you find that there is a minor conflict between several members on a project team but this will not impact the project. Which of the following will be the best conflict resolution technique for you to employ?

Wiithdrawing

Stella finds that two project employees have been involved in several heated arguments. As a project manager, she refused to discuss the conflict. This is an example of which type of conflict resolution technique

Withdrawing

You are the project manager for a small project that is in the Closing phase. You prepare closure documents and want to get them signed off. What will you do?

You will ask the sponsor to sign-off on the documents, showing that the project is officially closed.

Which of the following terms describes a critical path task?

Zero float

Which of the following is a project document created in the project closing process group that describes what went well and what didn't go well on the project?

lessons learned